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Cognos buys Applix: Business intelligence company Cognos said Wednesday that it will buy Applix, a performance management software company, for $339 million. With the deal Cognos can add financial management tools to its business intelligence suite. Under the terms of the deal, Cognos, which recently spoke to ZDNet about the future...; Tags: Business Intelligence, Cognos Inc., Financial, Applix Inc., Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-05
Extreme Budgeting: Pushing Excel to Its Limits... and Beyond: The budgeting process has evolved greatly over the last couple of decades, not just because the businesses have evolved, but also because in 1979 - VisiCalc - the world's first spreadsheet was created. Since that time, doing budgeting has become synonymous with using a spreadsheet. Today, it is unthinkable to...; Tags: Budgeting, Applix Inc., Financial Services, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers 2006-01-10
Profitability Analysis: Not the Elusive Quest for the Holy Grail: The "Holy Grail" of corporate performance management is profitability. Just as there are many pitfalls in any quest, the search for understanding profitability can be fraught with peril, most significantly by that alluring concept of revenue. Sophisticated businesses understand that revenue needs to be analyzed, assessed and allocated in order...; Tags: Holy Grail, Applix Inc., Analysis, Financial Services; White papers 2005-08-01
TM1 provides STA Travel Group with a global solution: Applix is a global provider of Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management solutions. Applix is a founder of the BPM Standards Group (www.bpmstandardsgroup.org), and has been recognized by numerous industry analyst groups for its technical leadership and vision in the marketplace. More than 1,900 customers worldwide use TM1 for...; Tags: Applix Inc., TM1, Business Intelligence, Roi/Tco, Microsoft Excel, Business Structures, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Marketing, Management; White papers 2005-07-27
Secrets of Competitive Financial Services: Analytics for Customer Profitability Analysis in Global Banking: Banking service firms have many challenges, one of which is that revenues are simply not easily predictable. But the balance sheet and profit & loss statements of a bank don't give executives or managers many insights into the sources of company profits. This white paper showcases how a specific worldwide...; Tags: Analytics, Financial Service, Applix Inc., Analysis, Banking, Balance Sheets, Financial Services, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-07-01

BPM Spells Relief: Business Performance Management BPM is all about aligning business strategy with resources and execution, to generate optimal results. The job of financial analyst in today's market is incredibly demanding. Executives want more information faster than ever before. The age-old tools of financial analysis simply cannot perform to these demanding requirements....; Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, Applix Inc., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-05-01
Advanced Data Analysis Helps Pelephone Keep Its Customers Satisfied: Israel's Pelephone is unquestionably at the cutting edge of the cellular telephone business. As part of a general overhaul of its IT infrastructure, and after an extended period of intense testing of some different proposed solutions, Pelephone decided to deploy the most scalable and powerful customer analytics solution yet developed...; Tags: Data Analysis, Analytics, Applix Inc., Financial Planning, Data Mining, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
64-Bit Version of Budget Forecasting Software Gives Users More Memory, More Speed: Applix is a software development company that creates budgeting, forecasting, and planning applications. The company's typical customers are data-dependent organizations involved in retail, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and other industries. The flagship Applix product, TM1, helps Applix customers analyze and report on very large data sets in real time. Many...; Tags: 64-bit, Applix Inc., Memory, Forecasting, Software Development, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software; Case studies

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Customs Organisation Improves Customer Service With Standardised IT Environment: Finnish Customs regulates Finland's internal and external trade in the European Union. In 2005, the organisation employed 2,600 people and collected ¬2.5 billion (U.S.$3.5 billion) in taxes and charges. That year, the organisation decided to upgrade from its existing Applix database server and IT environment. Finnish Customs examined a number...; Tags: Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., Customs Organisation, Finnish Customs, Open Source, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2007-12-01
BI leader Cognos gets scooped up by IBM: The thought on the street was that Cognos had to get bought soon, given the business intelligence BI consolidation land-grab of late -- punctuated by Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion and SAP's buy of Business Objects. So now Big Blue steps up to the plate, and for $5...; Tags: Cognos Inc., Leader, EMC Corp., IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Investment, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Sharpening that personal productivity axe: As many of you will remember we had an extensive discussion here last week about my belief that externally imposed work processes ultimately lead to standardised ways of thinking about those work processes. Kind of a Nixonian thing: grab them by their work processes, and pretty soon their hearts and...; Tags: What users care about, Unanswered questions, Enterprise Policy, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Keeping IT Sane in a Crazy BI World of Excel: Microsoft Excel is not a business intelligence BI tool; however, it is one of the most popular productivity tools used in business intelligence to consume and manipulate data. This paper presents the case for Excel and BI by providing recommendations on how to eliminate problems associated with using Excel as...; Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Excel, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Databases, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management; White papers 2005-06-29